Friday, June 29, 2007

To fluff or not to fluff. That is the question.

So, I'm lying in bed the other night when CCB slithers up next to me. I laid as still as I could. "That's not the reaction I was expecting." CCB says. "I was concentrating on not fluffing." I reply. That started off a whole big conversation on why I shouldn't be afraid to pass gas in his presence.

We have been married for nearly 13 years now and together for 15 you'd think that it wouldn't matter anymore right? Oh no. For some reason I have this need to protect the illusion that I'm a "lady". I don't deny that I have to deal with gas like everyone else. I just don't blast off any old time I want. As CCB pointed out he has held my hair when I've barfed. He's watched them pull my children from my belly. He's walked in on me going to the restroom. There is much more he listed but I think you get the idea. To him it's silly that after seeing my body do all those other things that I would hide this one thing.

Am I alone in this ladies? Do men care?

11 comments:

sprinkle4 said...

Grover used to leave the room if he had to break wind, but after witnessing the birth of our two kids, he kind of lost that sensitivity. And I have always told him that if I had to leave the room to do that, he'd probably never see me.:) So, we both kind of got over it. Now, we have contests to see who can produce the loudest, longest, fluffiest fluff. I know, it's kind of gross but it's a lot of fun!

Kelly said...

LOL! I agree with sprinkle, it is nice at first to be polite and lady like. It just gets to be exhausting and isn't practical. My husband and I got over the uncomfortableness of it and now it is no big deal.

Anonymous said...

I've never been nor ever will be a lady. I've "fluffed" (such a quaint way of putting it!) in front of Mr T since our first date, we still giggle like schoolkids whenever we fart.

I've always fluffed in front of all my partners and never got a negative reaction (except to the smell). In my experience blokes really don't seem to care, they're mostly big kids!

CaCaBoy said...

I'll give you such a pinch! ;)

Unknown said...

I don't really like it. I mean, I understand sometimes you can't hold 'em in, but as one friend of mine said, it's like licking someones butt. You just wouldn't do it.


That said, Martha and I let 'em go all the time when we're together...

Anonymous said...

First of all, farting is NOT like licking someone's butt. OMG What a nasty nasty nasty comparison.

And Mark and I don't hold it in mainly because, well, I'm not a lady.

Chick said...

Sorry...but I HATE doing in from of anyone...I'm just silly like that...it's one last illusion I like to hold on to.

& girlie, I had no idea what you were talking about when you said...fluffing.

My mind went straight to what a fluffer is in the porn industry...

Lucy Stern said...

There are times when you can "fart" in out of the way places and other times when it just comes, whether you want it to or not. My husband has a problem with gas and he passes it at a moments notice. It has almost become a game at our house. I think CCB knows that you are a lady, but even ladies have there times of indescrision....

Daniel Hoffmann-Gill said...

Hi there, yep it is me in full Kohler commercial effect.

Hope you like it.

Daniel.

Kelly said...

What did you decide?

ves said...

wow. you married people really have it good. Perpetually single girls like me, don't have that luxury, we have to keep the fantasy up.